and I think the issue of trans girls competing at sports with genetic females requires a little more analysis and perhaps an * in the record books.

let me try (and fail) : is requiring trans women to compete in women's events imposing a binary framework on non binary sexual identity?.

maybe we need events specifically for trans gender persons?

Why would there need to be events specifically for transpeople?

without considering that the lives of actual people of color are not all song and dance.

Blackface is meant to mock and demean black people, are you saying drag does the same of women?

What would happen if there was no separate events for the quarter mile, or weightlifting, etc.?

about trans athletes - esp. those have gone through puberty in their biological sex. It's important.

I don't get the drag queen stuff compared to blackface.

I wonder if it is coming up because it has recently become controversial - because young kids are doing it (those internet 'stars' have huge followings - and a few ? - well at least one of those kids performed a drag queen act in a 'proper' night club)? (Though still not getting the analogy, tbh).

I can understand how blackface is demeaning but I have never been offended by drag queens. Actually, I find them very entertaining. Do I need to be enlightened?

While there are some drag performances which might not be "positive", most performances are not done to demean or otherwise humiliate women; the same cannot be said of blackface. Frankly, this seems like heterosexist nonsense compounded with healthy slices of homophobia and transphobia.

I kept thinking about it and I have never thought drag is trying to DEMEAN women - honestly, it feels more like a CELEBRATION

on edit: you know who DOES hate drag? Homophobes. And we all know misogyny is at the root of homophobia. This is just another attempt to justify homophobia / transphobia - fuck that noise

Liza, Judy, Barbra, and so on...

sports from men and women’s sports then you can’t separate men and women’s sports either for obvious reasons of anatomical disadvantages.

What in the world does that mean?

A pejorative for a woman, no doubt.

I’ve heard of its use in terms of prostitution, but not in the gay world I know.

Profiled the gender stereotypes, expectations "boys wear blue, girls wear pink" in absolute terms. Even when these were getting criticized for such antiquated notions, there they were, even used as primary reading materials in a rather backward rural area where 1950's era textbooks were still issued, despite duct-taped, rotting binders and annoyingly outdated reinforcements of "daddy goes to work, mommie washes the dishes". I always found those series sickeningly dated.
Forward half a century, and I see some curious throw-back neighbors cringeworthy reactions to any male wearing anything colorful, themselves having NEVER donned anything more joie de vivre than a mattress cover, daily. Such who cannot even follow a conversation containing any 3 syllable terms, sipping their beer, burp... The moral to my story becomes sickeningly apparent when they land on my imaging table with all consuming pancreatitis (and all too often these days, positive for methamphetamine abuse) poster-boys for toxic masculinity.
It seemed like the greatest-generation, due-for-retirement teachers were still endevouring to cement these absolutes into us, to the extent of myself on the receiving end of physical punishments for perceived violations of behavioral standards. I can't recall what I was punished for, only the sting of the paddle.
To this day, those nightmares make me say "Plug the fuck in, Fox News". Pedaling the above talking point seems doubly hypocritical... but attempting to convince such boomers of such runs smack into obstinate dunning/kruger effect.
And they vote.

of W. PA.

First time we attended one. It was great, raised a lot of money for Womens' health, and repro rights.